Joe Gregg will be doing a presentation on the Liebniz Front end at the
Developer Conference next week.
Brett Barnhart
At 01:42 AM 10/9/97 -0400, Paul Abbott wrote:
>Matthias Weber wrote:
>
>> It would be possible to write a
>> front end with a nice interface (graphical, whatever you want)
>> which however restricts the input to simple expressions. That is,
>> only input would be accepted with intuitive meaning such that a
>> beginning user could solve his/her problems. The design of such a
>> front end would be the hard part, and probably one should indeed
>> pick some hundred people from the addressed user group to test
>> it out.
>> This way only a subset of Mathematica's abilities would be
>> available, but it would be instantly to use.
>> I myself would welcome such a front end very much for educational
>> purposes -- we have just given up the idea of using Mathematica
>> for teaching undergraduates because of that sort of difficulties.
>
>Such a thing exists. Have a look at Liebniz:
>
> http://www.athenet.net/~jgregg/Leibniz.html
>
>Cheers,
> Paul
>
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